Summer

Hello and thanks for visiting my website. I am also on Facebook, and would be happy to have you along as a fan.

My new book, FALLEN GRACE (the one set in the funeral parlour) was published in June. Here is the brilliant trailer.

I’ve already had some good reviews. In the Times, Amanda Craig was kind enough to say that FALLEN GRACE was “by any standards, an exceptional novel” and finished a detailed review by saying:

“How the Unwins plot to cheat the pair out of a fortune, how Grace wins a most unexpected revenge and how Lily proves herself unexpectedly sensible is conveyed in sinewy prose, and by the time the famous fogs rise up you know that not since Philip Pullman’s The Ruby in the Smoke has there been such a gorgeous evocation of Victorian life - or so satisfying a conclusion.”

My MEGAN books are still selling well. One librarian at a school I visited recently said that they were a “rite of passage“ for her Year 7 and 8 girls. Even the popularity of these, however, wouldn’t be able to persuade me to go back to writing modern fiction again.

In July, NEWES FROM THE DEAD comes out in paperback in the US. It's also being published in a new format in France as LA MESSAGERE DE L’AU-DELA.

I have begun writing my next book, which is about Victorian spiritualism. I don’t have a title as yet, but I do have a heroine, and her name is Velvet.

Thanks for reading, and do email or write to me on Facebook if you want to ask anything.

Love from Mary Hooper x x x

N.B. If any schools are interested in seeing some of the original research material I used when writing NEWES FROM THE DEAD, please contact childrenspublicity @ randomhouse. co. uk (please join up) and a Schools Pack will be emailed to you.